Mark Noble

“I want to score but when you think of the soldiers in Iraq with bullets flying around their heads you realise a penalty isn't something to get too worried about.”

“It's a fear of failure which drives me on.”

“The way the Premier League is now we have a lot of foreign players. A lot of very good foreign players.”

“I've been here for 19 years, so West Ham fans are bored with seeing me. It's like my wife, who changes the wallpaper every three years because she gets tired of it.”

“I love playing football. I always look at it as there's a lot worse things you can be doing than coming into a training ground in the morning and playing footy and having a laugh with the boys.”

“I used to do a lot of fishing with my dad, usually in Beckton Boating Lake.”

“I always give 100% in every game I play, even if it's not enough.”

“People have to realise we are footballers, we are targets but we have got to protect ourselves.”

“Football is a game of moments now and if someone does four step-overs, they've had an incredible game. That's not something I do.”

“In football winning games is all that matters, but a team like West Ham and every team apart from Man City are going to lose games.”

“I've just always got on with people older than me for some reason.”

“Chicharito is a goal machine - he gets one chance and scores.”

“I'm as passionate as the fans, I want West Ham to do well whether I'm in the team or not.”

“Don't get me wrong, I love training and I love playing but everyday life? People see the money and the material things that footballers have but you get to a Premier League level because you have something inside you and you can play. Ninety per cent of that is self-pride.”

“You have to hit the ground running at West Ham. If you don't, suddenly from the fans it's, 'You're not good enough to play for our football club.'”

“I feel a lot older than I am.”

“My biggest problem, when I was younger and when things weren't going so well, I was so enthusiastic, so anxious to make things better that I used to get myself in trouble.”

“It is hard if you have got family and kids and you have to leave them on Christmas Day to go and train but listen, we are a small minority of lucky players. We have obviously worked hard for this, but we are lucky enough to have the ability to play in the Premier League.”

“We're not robots, we're not factory built. We have feelings, we have families and we go through tough times that people don't know about. Sometimes your form isn't good and there's a reason for that. Sometimes the team isn't playing well and you can't quite work out why.”

“When you're 2-0 up and you lose possession, you sprint back. So much of it is down to confidence - it's really down to really wanting to make that run.”